Interactive Camera-Projector System

Accessing the KDE-menu using the system (2.72 MByte video)

Developed by Juan Roldan, ERASMUS exchange student from Cordoba, Spain

Ushakiran Soutapalli, MSc student at Sheffield Hallam developed the graphical user-interface

Camera-Projector System

Application

A software for camera-projector interaction was developed by Juan Roldan, Ushakiran Soutapalli, Julien Faucher, and Jan Wedekind at the Microsystem & Machine Vision Laboratory (MMVL) at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

The software makes use of a low cost off-the shelf webcam that is calibrated against a standard projector screen. The webcam is used to determine the position of physical pointer (e.g. a pen) which is then used to virtually move the X11 pointer. Point-and-click functionality has also been implemented.

The vision system uses the Mimas real-time computer vision toolkit developed by the MMVL.

How it works

Mouse clicks

The standard deviation of a few recent mouse-positions is used as a criterion, wether the mouse is stationary or moving. If the mouse is stationary, a mouse click is issued.

Future Work

UML-diagram of proposed static structure of future software version

UML-diagram of proposed collaboration of future software version

• More different mouseevents

Gallery

Artist's impression of the system	Interactive camera-projector system	Long demonstration of the prototype-system (11.4 MByte video)	Short interactive slides presentation with the system (6.3 MByte video)	Browsing the file-system and trying to play minigolf (14.4 MByte video)
Playing Reversi against the computer (5.54 MByte video also available at video.google.co.uk)	Calibration of the screen using projected patterns	Prototype of early user-interface (13.7 MByte video)	Screenshot of the wizard for configuring the recognition algorithm

Downloads

Download mando-0.1.tar.bz2 (339 kByte). For your convenience the required parts of Mimas are included in the package. To build and run the package do

tar xjf mando-0.1.tar.bz2
cd mando-0.1
./configure
make
./mando

Sorry, but make install is not fully implemented at the moment (the software would need to load the calibration-patterns from the data-directory). At the moment the images for calibration are loaded from the current working directory.

See Also

• Mimas Camera Calibration
• Student Projects Available

External Links

• Interative Camera-Projector System
  • Project page at KDE-apps
  • The interactive camera-projector system at google video
• References
  • A Flexible New Technique for Camera Calibration: Zhengyou Zhang
  • Creating input events in Linux/X11 using the X11 test interface
  • Report by Ushakiran Soutapalli
• Other projects
  • Edward Tse - Interactions Inventor
  • Multi-Touch Interaction Research
  • Magic board project by IIHM
  • IBM Research on interactive projector
  • Finger tracking with laser scanner
  • LaserGo allows playing Go using a laser-pointer
  • E-Chalk project
  • MIT iCampus: Magic Paper